OLD Y2R Ascot Blog

Term 2- week 8: February 27-March 3rd 2017

We have had a great first week back from holidays!  

Today we completed our reading level checks and I was very pleased to see that all students have made progress from last term in both their decoding and comprehension levels!! Each student has had a personal interview of up to an hour where I can get a clear idea about how far their reading and comprehension skills have progressed. New guided reading groups will begin next week according to the results.

Next week we will be having school photos. Please remember to wear full uniform on Tuesday for our class photo.

We have begun out newest Unit about how learning about how people lived in the past can help us to progress today.  Our first week is about "Tuning In" on the subject so we have been discussing what students already know about the past and what their ideas are now.  Students had a chance to make a short skit about a family life 100 years ago and act it out for the class. Everyone remembered to use the presentation skills.

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Y2 Weekly Update: Week 8 2017

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                   

	This Week	Next Week
English	We began looking at Non Chronological reports and their features. This include sorting out Non chronological reports and their main features.	·         We will continue to look at non chronological reports in greater detail and planning our own reports using a spidergram.
Math	This week we continued learning about multiplication and how we could use arrays to help us with our multiplication. We also began looking at division and so we could use our knowledge of multiplication to help us with our division skills.	·         Recognise all coins, know their value, and use them to make amounts; ·         recognise £5, £10, £20 notes; ·         make amounts using coins and £10 note; ·         write amounts using £.p notation; order coins 1p – £2 and notes £5 – £20; ·         add several coins writing totals in £.p notation (no zeros in 10p place); ·         add two amounts of pence, using counting on in 10s and 1s; ·         add two amounts of money, beginning to cross into £s
Inquiry	We began our new theme ‘where we are in place and time’ with the central idea ‘Changes seen in evidence of the past, helps us understand how we live today.’. The students began their tuning in by discussing what they already know about the past and what they think that life was like 100 years ago.	·         The students will begin the finding out phase of inquiry and will begin thinking of questions that they wish to answer and developing their research skills.
Notices and Events	School photo week - next week we will be having our annual photo week. On Tuesday 7th we will have our whole school photo and class photos so please remember to dress your child in school uniform and PE kits can be put in bags.